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Lowestoft Great Eastern Hotel

Lowestoft Great Eastern Hotel

South, 52.47494,1.74689

Closed: later than 1976

78 Denmark Rd

grid reference TM 545 929

The hotel is shown on this OS town plan of 1884 (larger map).

old OS map

In 1900 Samuel George Marler is listed as proprietor with first class accommodation, choice wines, spirits & cigars, Bass bottled ales, bowling green & billiards.

The hotel is shown at this location on the 1885 OS map. It appears as a hotel or pub on OS maps at least as late as 1951, but subsequent available sheets are insufficiently detailed to tell if it was still trading. Evidently the hotel was still trading in 1976, as according to Alfred Hedges' book of that year, "Inns and Inn Signs of Norfolk and Suffolk",

[...]the sign of the Great Eastern at Lowestoft is misleading. After all Lowestoft is the most easterly point in England and most inns named the Great Eastern commemorate the Great Eastern Railway Company. Yet the Great Eastern at Lowestoft is named after the great iron ship of that name, which made its first crossing of the Atlantic in 1860.

It has been listed at number 38 or 39 and was renumbered to 78 between 1881 & 1891.

The original building appears to have been demolished.

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Landlords

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Footnote

The GER was formed in 1862 by amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway with smaller railways: the Norfolk Railway, the Eastern Union Railway, the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway, the East Norfolk Railway, the Harwich Railway, the East Anglian Railway and the East Suffolk Railway among others.

(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)

(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)

Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

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